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IBM Watson And The Future Of Learning

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I’ve banged on about intelligent personal learning agents based on semantic technologies in the past , and Watson – a ‘natural language processing’ ‘pattern recognizing’ ‘world aware’ engine – is a huge step towards making that happen. At this time, performance support tends to be viewed to happen in discrete episodes.

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Apple iPad Disappoints eLearning Industry

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I was looking forward to the Apple iPad even more so as we have been doing good stuff on mobile learning and putting up applications and tools on iPhone as pilots and on a trial basis. Microsoft, HP, IBM – where are your tablets? We’re waiting….

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Wearable Computing Technology In Learning

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We’ve been tracking the growth of wearable computing devices and associated technology as they are likely to have interesting implications for learning technology. Using a wearable computer for continuous learning and support , (yes, Springer, costs money 40 USD!). The Provision of context.

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eLearning: Interesting Weekly Finds #11

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Imagine what an agent like this might do for learning, quite impressive. IBM Academic Initiative. A cool initiative by IBM to promote open source software in academia. Tags: Future Technology Mobile Learning Upside Learning Weekly Finds Google Buzz JavaScript 3D engine siri Social Media Web-based drawing.

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How to Learn From Your Best-Failures?

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Bhaskar Chatterjee, the chief guest at the CLO Summit India earlier this month, spoke that mistakes should be part of a learning organization’s culture. I have written about how we all learn more from mistakes. At Upside Learning do ask all our employees to not be afraid of making mistakes. That resonated strongly with me.

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Learning Technologies 2010 – Day 2 Recap

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After having a great first day at the Learning Technologies 2010 I was looking forward to an exciting second day. Discussing their current concerns around learning and development gives us a glimpse into their world and that’s valuable. Bersin used the slide shown here in which types of tools/medium can be used in Informal Learning.

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Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest – 4

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Lists and explains 5 trends that would be predominant in the LMS and mobile learning domain in the coming year. Children are motivated by learning through play and learn a lot through playing. Children are motivated by learning through play and learn a lot through playing. Read it here. Read it here. Let’s Play!